SPREADSHEETS

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SPREADSHEETS

• Who can provide a definition for a spreadsheet?
  
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• Answer
•  Application program used to process and analyze
  mathematical information.
• Used to analyze numeral information
• Operate as a smart calculator 

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List four reasons why someone would use a
spreadsheet?

• Budgets

• Sales projections
• Investments
• Loans
• Determining the class average for
  test/quizzes

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How much do you know?

• A spreadsheet divides the computer screen into
  columns and

rows

• Columns run

vertically

• (vertically/horizontally) on the screen and are
  labelled alphabetically across the top of the
  screen

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How much do you know?

• Rows run

horizontally
(vertically/horizontally) on the screen and are
labelled numerically down the left side of the
screen  
How many rows and columns are in a
spreadsheet? Rows

• 65,536

Columns

• 256

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How much do you know?

• A

cell

• is a single working unit within a spreadsheet.

The name for the location of a cell
within a spreadsheet is the
cell address.
A1 is an example of a
cell address.
It is also the very first cell in a spreadsheet.
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